adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
giving...crap (= saying bad things )
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I’m tired of you giving me crap about my long hair.
giving...prod
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‘Go on,’ he whispered, giving me a prod in the back.
giving...spiel
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A salesman started giving us a spiel about life insurance.
giving...the willies
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All this talk about ghosts is giving me the willies .
not giving up my day job
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I’d love to be a professional writer, but I’m not giving up my day job just yet.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
birth
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The physical expression of female sexuality is her monthly period and its triumph lies in her giving birth .
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Aside from giving birth to the Blessed Mary at the age of forty, little is known of her.
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Surprisingly, I find that all my reasons for postponing giving birth still apply: I don't particularly like children.
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He's much more in his element in prometheus, which heaves and sighs as though it's actually giving birth to fire.
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His first wife, Helena, died in 1845 giving birth to a daughter.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But it seemed to Paige now that he was doing all the giving and she was taking without returning anything.
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Education is not just about giving people the facts.
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Flesh against flesh, just giving comfort and pleasure at first.
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For a Liberal Democrat to argue that giving institutions the power to run their own affairs is a centralising measure is extraordinary.
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Manion felt comfortable with the pitch he was giving Karen.
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The latter involves the recipient of the memo in additional work, whereas merely giving information does not.
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The physical expression of female sexuality is her monthly period and its triumph lies in her giving birth.
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The plight of some 600 detainees acknowledged by the authorities was also giving cause for concern.